“Criminal law should be concerned with crime to society, not the embarrassment of the prudest among us,” Mr. Ruby said. “Imprisonment for nudity is entirely beyond a modern conception of what the criminal law should do.”
Bathing led to nudity. Nudity led to promiscuity. So believed the colonial lawmakers of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Philadelphia was especially strict in those early years. You could be jailed there bathing more than once a month.